FreeOrion 0.4.2 Download Publisher Review:

Whats new in version 0.4.2:New Features / Improvements:
• Very much improved AI.
• Added an AI aggression setting during game setup.
• Keyboard presses should now account for the operating system language setting, and it should be possible to type non-Latin characters in-game as long as the appropriate character set is used in the selected stringtable file.
• Added an objects list window, with collapsable rows showing objects containing other objects
• Objects list has an incomplete filtering function to control what objects are shown.
• Right clicking an object in the objects list give a command to data dump about that object to the messages window. (For debug purposes)
• Added ion storms moving around the map. Ships and planets in storms have reduced stealth and detection.
• Improved Sitrep
• Added type filters.
• Old sitrep entries are kept on later turns, and may be reviewed.
• Different icons for different event types
• Added droplists to items on production queue to produce multiple items before being removed from the queue.
• Al...

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